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Emails relating to the Southern Growth Area

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From: Ray Bartlett

Dear Upper Hutt City Council,

I would like to be sent copies of all emails sent to or from former UHCC planner James McKibbin before he left council dating from February 2016 till December 2019 that are related to the Silverstream Spur and/or the Southern Growth Area and/or Memorandum
Of UnderStanding and/or the Guildford Timber Company and/or any discussions relating to any aspect of this development between GTC staff and James McKibbin

Yours faithfully,

Ray Bartlett

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From: UHCC
Upper Hutt City Council

Tēnā koe,

Thank you for contacting the Upper Hutt City Council.

 

For anything urgent please call our Council phone number 04 527 2169.

 

Ngā mihi, 

Ratonga Kaihoko | Customer Services

Te Kaunihera o Te Awa Kairangi ki Uta | Upper Hutt City Council  

 

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Kia ora Ray,

 

I acknowledge receipt of your official information request dated 17
October 2021 requesting the below information.

 

We will endeavour to respond to your request as soon as possible and in
any event no later than 15 November 2021, being 20 working days after the
day your request was received.  If we are unable to respond to your
request by then, we will notify you of an extension of that timeframe.

 

If you have any queries, please feel free to contact me.  If any
additional factors come to light which are relevant to your request,
please do not hesitate to contact me so that these can be taken into
account.

 

Kind regards,

 

Michael Gibbons
LGOIMA Officer

Te Kaunihera o Te Awa Kairangi ki Uta I Upper Hutt City Council

838 – 842 Fergusson Drive, Private Bag 907, Upper Hutt 5140, New Zealand
T: +64 4 527 2169 | E: [1][email address]

W: [2]www.upperhuttcity.com | F: [3]www.fb.com/upperhuttcitycouncil

 

 

Te Kaunihera o Te Awa Kairangi ki Uta | Upper Hutt City Council

838 – 842 Fergusson Drive, Private Bag 907, Upper Hutt 5140, New Zealand

Tau Waea: +64 4 527 2157 | Waea: +64 4 527 2169

Îmçra: [4][email address] | Pae Tukutuku:
[5]www.upperhuttcity.com

Pukamata: [6]www.fb.com/UpperHuttCityCouncil

 

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Kia ora Ray,

 

We thank you for your Local Government Official Information and Meetings
Act request below. This email is to inform you that our IT have managed to
pull the emails from James McKibbin’s deactivated account, and we have
applied a search filter to pull all the emails that are in scope of your
request.

 

At the moment we have 380 pages worth of emails, as well as 74
attachments, which we estimate will add an additional 200 pages worth of
information. This is a substantial amount of information for us to review.

 

Before we disclose emails we need to review them for material that should
be withheld, like the personal contact details of third parties, and
commercial information. As it stands currently, we consider that the
review and redaction of the information would require substantial
collation and we’d have to consider refusing your request under section
17(f) of the Act.

 

Instead, could you narrow the focus of your request? If we can reduce the
quantity of information we will be more able to review and redact it where
necessary for disclosure.

 

Please let me know if you would like to proceed with your request as it
currently stands, or if you would like to re-scope to a more narrow
request. Looking forward to hearing from you

 

If you are dissatisfied with our handling of your requests at any time,
you have the right to seek an investigation and review by the Ombudsman.
Information about how to make a complaint is available
at [1]www.ombudsman.parliament.nz or freephone 0800 802 602.

Warm regards,
Michael

Michael Gibbons
LGOIMA Officer

Te Kaunihera o Te Awa Kairangi ki Uta I Upper Hutt City Council

838 – 842 Fergusson Drive, Private Bag 907, Upper Hutt 5140, New Zealand
T: +64 4 527 2169 | E: [2][email address]

W: [3]www.upperhuttcity.com | F: [4]www.fb.com/upperhuttcitycouncil

 

 

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From: Ray Bartlett

Dear OIA Requests,

Thank you for getting this far. To assist things if we take the attachments out of it that will reduce the workload a fair bit. How about also taking it back to July 2017 his final day of employment. That should get us down to a reasonable level.

As an alternative is it possible to pay for this redacting to be undertaken, which would then allow the full request to proceed?

Please advise

Yours sincerely,

Ray Bartlett

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Morning Ray,

 

Thanks for getting back so quickly, and I hope you had a great weekend.

 

If you're comfortable with this approach, and to save you a bit of money -
let's move forward with the emails at this stage, and I'll have the name
of the attachments available for you to view in the emails. After
reviewing the emails, if you would like to request any of the attachments
we can process that in another request (I suspect a lot of them will be
uninteresting to you, so you may want just a small subset).

 

Does that sound like a reasonable way forward? If so, let me know by
return email and I'll begin reviewing the emails with the aim of getting
those to you by the end of this week.

 

Warm regards,

Michael

 

Michael Gibbons
LGOIMA Officer

Te Kaunihera o Te Awa Kairangi ki Uta I Upper Hutt City Council

838 – 842 Fergusson Drive, Private Bag 907, Upper Hutt 5140, New Zealand
T: +64 4 527 2169 | E: [1][email address]

W: [2]www.upperhuttcity.com | F: [3]www.fb.com/upperhuttcitycouncil

 

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From: Ray Bartlett

Dear OIA Requests,

Yes please proceed.

Yours sincerely,

Ray Bartlett

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Thanks for this, Ray, much appreciated.

 

I'm just finishing up reviewing the emails today, but unfortunately it
will need a few days with managers for sign-off. I will provide a response
to this request no later than Friday 26 November, and will endeavour to
get this to you as soon as possible before then.

 

Warm regards,

Michael

 

Michael Gibbons
LGOIMA Officer

Te Kaunihera o Te Awa Kairangi ki Uta I Upper Hutt City Council

838 – 842 Fergusson Drive, Private Bag 907, Upper Hutt 5140, New Zealand
T: +64 4 527 2169 | E: [1][email address]

W: [2]www.upperhuttcity.com | F: [3]www.fb.com/upperhuttcitycouncil

 

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Kia ora Ray,

Thank you for your patience as we prepared our response to your Local
Government Official Information and Meetings Act request. Please find
attached the information relevant to your request.

I believe this has answered the full scope of your request.  Please let me
know if you have any further questions about this request.

 

If you are dissatisfied with our response, you have the right to seek an
investigation and review by the Ombudsman.  Information about how to make
a complaint is available at [1]www.ombudsman.parliament.nz or freephone
0800 802 602.

Warm regards,
Michael

Michael Gibbons
LGOIMA Officer

Te Kaunihera o Te Awa Kairangi ki Uta I Upper Hutt City Council

838 – 842 Fergusson Drive, Private Bag 907, Upper Hutt 5140, New Zealand
T: +64 4 527 2169 | E: [2][email address]

W: [3]www.upperhuttcity.com | F: [4]www.fb.com/upperhuttcitycouncil

 

 

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